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Lexicon :: Strong's H875 - bᵊ'ēr

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בְּאֵר
Transliteration
bᵊ'ēr
Pronunciation
be-ayr'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 194a

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: באר.

Strong’s Definitions

בְּאֵר bᵉʼêr, be-ayr'; from H874; a pit; especially a well:—pit, well.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H875 in the following manner: well (32x), pit (3x), slimepits (1x), not translated (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H875 in the following manner: well (32x), pit (3x), slimepits (1x), not translated (1x).

  1. well, pit, spring

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בְּאֵר bᵉʼêr, be-ayr'; from H874; a pit; especially a well:—pit, well.
STRONGS H875: Abbreviations
† בְּאֵר noun feminineGenesis 26:21 well, pit, mostly Hexateuch, Genesis 23 times, Exodus 1 time, Numbers 5 times, + 37 times in all; Arabic bdb009102, Aramaic בְּאֵרָא, בֵּיר, בֵּירָא, bdb009103, Sabean באר DHMZMG. 1875, 608, Assyrian bêru, LyonSargon 61 (connection with above √ not clear; Lagl.c. spring of water, as coming to light, appearing; possible, although meaning in use rather well, than spring; see however, Genesis 16:14 compare Genesis 16:7; Genesis 26:19; Numbers 21:17) — בּ׳ absolute Genesis 21:30 +; construct Genesis 21:19 +; suffix בְּאֵֶר֑ךָ Proverbs 5:15; Plural absolute בְּאֵרֹת Genesis 26:15; construct id. Genesis 26:18; compare בֶּאֱרֹת בֶּאֱרֹת חֵמָר Genesis 14:10; —
† 1. a well, often as made by digging (חָפַר) Genesis 21:25, 30 (E), Genesis 26:15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 32 (all J), also in poetry Numbers 21:18 (+ כרה) see also [H876 Numbers 21:16]; Numbers 21:17 (where the well addressed, in song, עֲלִי בְאֵר); also with כרה in prose Genesis 26:25; also with no reference to its origin Genesis 16:14 (J; || עַיִן Genesis 16:7), Genesis 29:2; Exodus 2:15 (J) Numbers 20:17; Numbers 21:22 (E) 2 Samuel 17:18, 21; בְּאֵר (ה)מַיִם Genesis 21:19 (E) Genesis 24:11 (J; || עַיִן Genesis 24:13; Genesis 24:16; Genesis 24:43; Genesis 24:45); (compare also Genesis 21:25; Genesis 26:18 above & especially Genesis 26:19 בְּאֵר מַיִם חַיִּים); water taken from it by drawing (שָׁאַב) Genesis 24:11, 20; flocks watered from it (הִשְׁקָה מִןֿ) Genesis 29:2, 3, 8, 10 (compare especially Exodus 2:16 they drew, דלה, and filled the troughs); also מִתּוֺךְ בְּאֵרֶ֑ךָ.... שְׁתֵה מַיִם Proverbs 5:15 (|| בּוֺר); the opening called פִּי הַבְּאֵר Genesis 29:2, 3 (twice in verse); Genesis 29:8, 10; compare הַבּ׳ פְּנֵי 2 Samuel 17:19 (read probably פּי so SAM Targum Syriac Version Vulgate, compare Dr); figurative of fresh delights of woman beloved Songs 4:15 מַעְיַן גַּנִּים בְּאֵר מַיִם חַיִּים וְנוֺזְלִים מִןלְֿבָנוֺן.
† 2. pit (= בּוֺר); pits of bitumen Genesis 14:10 (compare above); בְּאֵר שַׁחַת Psalm 55:24 [Psalm 55:23] pit of (the) grave; compare Psalm 69:16 פִּיהָ בְּאֵר עָלַי וְאַל־תֶּאְטַר and let not (the) pit shut its mouth over me (|| מְצוּלָה); figurative of strange woman בְּאֵר צָרָה a narrow pit, out of which rescue is difficult Proverbs 23:27 (|| שׁוּחָה עֲמֻקָּה).
† 3. as proper name, of a location.
† a. with ה ָ locative בְּאֵ֫רָה a station of Israel in desert [H876 Numbers 21:16], possibly = בְּאֵר אֵילִים [H879 Isaiah 15:8].
† b. same form [H876 Judges 9:21], according to Euseb. LagOnom. 238, 2nd ed. 250 8 miles north of Eleutheropolis; compare RobBR i. 452 who compares el-Bîreh, near Beth-shemesh.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:10; 14:10; 16:7; 16:7; 16:14; 16:14; 21:19; 21:19; 21:25; 21:25; 21:30; 21:30; 24:11; 24:11; 24:13; 24:16; 24:20; 24:43; 24:45; 26:15; 26:15; 26:18; 26:18; 26:18; 26:19; 26:19; 26:19; 26:21; 26:21; 26:22; 26:25; 26:32; 29:2; 29:2; 29:2; 29:3; 29:3; 29:8; 29:8; 29:10; 29:10

Exodus

2:15; 2:16

Numbers

20:17; 21:17; 21:17; 21:18; 21:22

2 Samuel

17:18; 17:19; 17:21

Psalms

55:23; 69:16

Proverbs

5:15; 5:15; 23:27

Song of Songs

4:15

H875

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H875 matches the Hebrew בְּאֵר (bᵊ'ēr),
which occurs 37 times in 33 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar (bitumen) pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them. But the remainder [of the kings] who survived fled to the hill country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi (Well of the Living One Who Sees Me); it is [fn]between Kadesh and Bered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the [empty] skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water which the servants of Abimelech had [violently] seized [from him],

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 - Abraham said, “You are to accept these seven ewe lambs from me as a witness for me, that I dug this well.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of the evening when women go out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20 - So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran again to the well and drew water for all his camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with dirt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18 -

Now Isaac again dug [and reopened] the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, because the Philistines had filled them up [with dirt] after the death of Abraham; and he gave the wells the same names that his father had given them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19 - But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of flowing [spring] water,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours!” So Isaac named the well Esek (quarreling), because they quarreled with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21 - Then his servants dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so Isaac named it Sitnah (enmity).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over that one; so he named it Rehoboth (broad places), saying, “For now the LORD has made [fn]room for us, and we shall be [fn]prosperous in the land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 -

So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD [in prayer]. He pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32 - Now on the same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, “We have found water.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying there [resting] beside it because the flocks were watered from that well. Now the stone on the mouth of the well [that covered and protected it] was large,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well, water the sheep, and [afterward] replace the stone on the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - But they said, “We cannot [leave] until all the flocks are gathered together, and the shepherds roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we will water the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw [his cousin] Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and Laban’s sheep, he came up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban, his uncle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - When [fn]Pharaoh heard about this matter, he tried to kill Moses. Then Moses fled from Pharaoh’s presence and took refuge in the land of [fn]Midian, where he sat down by a well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - ‘Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through a field or through a vineyard; we will not even drink water from a well. We will go along the [fn]king’s highway, not turning [off-course] to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16 -

From there the Israelites went on to Beer, that is the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17 -

Then Israel sang this song,

“Spring up, O well! Sing to it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 -

The well which the leaders dug,

Which the nobles of the people hollowed out

With the scepter and with their staffs.”

And from the wilderness Israel journeyed to Mattanah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - “Let me pass through your land; we will not turn away [from the road] into field or vineyard; we will not drink the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway until we have crossed your border.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18 - But a boy saw them and told Absalom; so the two of them left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard, and [with his permission] they went down into it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:19 - And the woman [of the house] took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well and scattered grain on it; so nothing was discovered.

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After they left, Jonathan and Ahimaaz came up out of the well and went and informed King David, and said to David, “Arise and cross over the [fn]Jordan River quickly, for Ahithophel has advised [an attack] against you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 -

But You, O God, will bring down the wicked to the pit of destruction;

Men of blood and treachery will not live out half their days.

But I will [boldly and unwaveringly] trust in You.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 -

Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me,

Nor the deep waters swallow me up,

Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 -

[fn]Drink water from your own [fn]cistern [of a pure marriage relationship]

And fresh running water from your own well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 -

For a prostitute is a deep pit,

And an immoral woman is a narrow well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 -

“You are a fountain in a garden,

A well of fresh and living water,

And streams flowing from Lebanon.”

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